Daphne
Zargar
Global Senior Manager at Amazon
"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
25 - 2:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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05/25/2025 2:00 PM
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"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
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"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
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"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
"Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work"
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Session: Cycle Positivity: The Long Overdue Conversation on Women's Cycles at Work
This presentation will talk about my own corporate journey through cycle awareness as a tech leader and engineering manager at General Motors then moving to Amazon in late 2021. This will specifically talk about how I championed and brought a brand new program to Amazon covering women's cycles in the workplace - menstruation, childbirth and especially menopause and how others can think about these topics and incorporate them into the dialog in their own workplaces. Despite ongoing research and media conversation about the impact of women’s cycles such as menopause on mental health, workplace well-being policy in the U.S. is still largely failing to provide appropriate support.Key Takeaways
- Why women's cycles need to be at the forefront of the corporate conversation
- How champions can support the topic and bring awareness to women's cycles at their own places of work
- My own cycle positive journey in corporate america and what I've learned
- Recent statistics and impact of menopause in the workplace
Bio
A strategist, technologist and disruptor, Daphne has been building teams and launching new programs for the past 15+ years. Her career spans three continents across varied industries including the United Nations in Iran and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, with the past decade focused in the technology and automotive sectors. At General Motors she lead the team that built the in-vehicle app experiences for millions of customers driving GM vehicles across the globe, launched the Alexa embedded app as the first virtual assistant for GM and oversaw the mobile application software engineering teams. Making the move over to Amazon the end of 2021, she leads the Partner Integration initiative for Amazon Smart Vehicles. The Amazon Digital Cabin in-vehicle infotainment platform and partnership with Stellantis will have her overseeing the multi-billion dollar integration of the new market solution going out to 40 million vehicles. Her passion is building diverse teams and strong cultures that are at the forefront of developing and implementing the latest technologies that will impact the human experience for years to come.